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I've put this on the eBay FB page
"I'd really like a sensible answer - not just the "reading an official statement" answers I've had so far - about the new fees eBay are charging private sellers, which includes a fee on the P&P element of the final selling price, over which the seller has no control at all - we pay what we have to pay to our despatching agent, it's totally unreasonable to ask us to pay a fee on that element as well. In effect, we don't get our full P&P because eBay is taking a chunk of it. Comments, please?"
stand back.... and await either a response, or none.